The long-awaited revision of THE book on learning proper OO analysis and design, from UML founder Grady Booch is back!

Grady Booch is an IBM fellow and author of six best-selling books on object-oriented programming. He is world-reknowned as an originator of OO and founder of UML.

Robert A. Maksimchuk, as Research Director in the Unisys CTO Office, focuses on emerging modeling technologies to advance the strategic direction of the Unisys 3D-Visual Enterprise modeling framework. Bob brings an abundance of systems engineering, modeling, and object-oriented analysis and design expertise, in numerous industries, to this mission. He is the coauthor of the books UML for Mere Mortals and UML for Database Design, has written various articles, has traveled worldwide as a featured speaker in numerous technology forums, and led workshops and seminars on UML and object-oriented development.

Michael W. Engle is a principal member of the engineering staff with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has extensive technical and management experience across the complete system development lifecycle, from project initiation through deployment and support in a variety of application domains. As a systems architect, Mike employs object-oriented analysis nad design techniques in complex systems development.

Dr. Bobbi Young is a Director of Research for the Unisys Chief Technology Office. She has many years of experience in the IT industry working with commercial companies and Department of Defense contractors. Dr. Young has been a consultant mentoring in program management, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and object-oriented analysis and design. Throughout her career, she has focused on system lifecycle processes and methodologies, and enterprise architecture.

Jim Conallen is a software engineer in IBM Rational's Model Driven Development Strategy team, where he is actively involved in applying the Object Management Group's (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative to IBM Rational's model tooling.

Kelli A. Houston is a Consulting IT Specialist at IBM Rational. She is the method architect for IBM's internal method authoring method and is part of the team responsible for integrating IBM's methods.

Mankind, under the grace of God, hungers for spiritual peace, esthetic achievements, family security, justice, and liberty, none directly satisfied by industrial productivity. But productivity allows the sharing of the plentiful rather than fighting over scarcity; it provides time for spiritual, esthetic, and family matters. It allows society to delegate special skills to institutions of religion, justice, and the preservation of liberty. Harlan Mills DPMA and Human Productivity As computer professionals, we strive to build systems that work and are useful; as software engineers, we are faced with the task of creating complex systems in the presence of constrained computing and human resources. Object-oriented technology has evolved as a means of managing the complexity inherent in many different kinds of systems. The object model has proven to be a very powerful and unifying concept. Changes to the Second Edition Since the publication of the second edition of Object-Oriented Design with Applications, we have seen major technological advances. Some highlights are, among many others: High bandwidth, wireless connectivity to the Internet is widely available Nanotechnology has emerged and has started to provide valuable products Our robots are cruising the surface of Mars Computer generated special effects have enabled the film industry to recreate any world imaginable with complete realism Personal hovercraft are available Mobile phones have become pervasive to the point of being disposable We have mapped the human genome Object-oriented technology has become well established in the mainstream of industrial-strength software development. We have encountered the use of the object-oriented paradigm throughout the world. However, we still encounter many people who have not yet adopted the object paradigm of development. For both of these groups, this revision of this book holds much value. For the person new to object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), this book gives: The conceptual underpinnings of and evolutionary perspective on object-orientation Examples of how OOAD can be applied across the system development lifecycle An introduction to the standard notation used in system and software development, the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.0). For the experienced OOAD practitioner, the content herein provides value from a different perspective: UML 2.0 is still new to even experienced practitioners. Here you will see the key changes in the notation More focus on modeling is provided, per your feedback received about the previous edition You can gain a great appreciation for "why things are the way they are" in the object-oriented (OO) world, from the Concepts section of the book. Many people may never have been exposed to this information on the evolution of the OO concepts themselves. Even if you were, you may not have grasped its significance when you were first learning the OO paradigm. There are four major differences between this edition and the previous publication: UML 2.0 has been officially approved. The Notation chapter will introduce UML 2.0. To enhance the reader's understanding of this notation, we explicitly distinguish between its fundamental and advanced elements. This edition introduces some new domains and contexts in the Application chapters. For example, the application domains range broadly across various levels of abstraction from high-level systems architecture to the design details of a web-based system. When the previous edition was published, C++ was relatively new, as was the very concept of OO programming. Readers tell us that this emphasis is no longer a primary concern. There is an abundance of OO programming and technique books and training available;